What is the basic difference between unix and windows
operating systems?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / jsdkar
unix file system in hierachical model
windows file system is flat type
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 429 Yes | 70 No |
Answer / elizabeth
Unix is a CLUI (Command Line User Interface) OS and Windows
is a GUI OS.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 384 Yes | 74 No |
Answer / manikantan t s
unix :- multi user, multi processing and multi tasking
operating system
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 254 Yes | 44 No |
Answer / sailatha
unix is more secure than windows. In unix we can restrict
the permission of each user
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 206 Yes | 21 No |
Answer / dharmajit kuanr
UNIX
1) Non
GUI
2) File System (STD.ERR, STD.IO)
3) Command Based
4) Not Event Driven
5) Multi Processing
WINDOWS
1) GUI Based
2) FAT32, NTFS
3) Menu Based
4) Event
Driven
5) No Multi Processing
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 248 Yes | 64 No |
Answer / krk
Windows support plug n play. While Unix doesn't.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 192 Yes | 57 No |
Answer / priten
1 ) Windows is licenced OS, It means you have to buy it
2 ) Unix is Free-source OS, you can Modify code of OS as
per your business requirement
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 194 Yes | 72 No |
Answer / manik
Unix is the multi user operating system.
windows is single user operating system.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 202 Yes | 87 No |
Answer / hari
Windows has the REGISTRY Concept.
Unix does not have Registry concept.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 138 Yes | 27 No |
Answer / quadri
windows only does not support multi user concept,
where as Unix supports multi tasking,processing,and multi
user concepts.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 90 Yes | 20 No |
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